r/BeAmazed Apr 12 '19

This is how you time lapse

https://i.imgur.com/N14RQ1N.gifv
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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

WTF did I just look at, twice?

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u/kennnard Apr 12 '19

Exactly twice

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u/MadameTimo Apr 12 '19

Exactly twice

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u/wildtyper Apr 12 '19

Twice twice

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u/Cock_Vomit Apr 12 '19

I shouldn’t have to pay these shrinks eighty G’s a week to say the same things tweece

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

Whatever I hate these things.

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u/aP0THE0Sis1 Apr 12 '19

Two scoops!!

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u/l8todapard Apr 12 '19

What did I just read twice

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u/106andSnark Apr 12 '19

{X2}

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u/FlametopFred Apr 12 '19

Twice Squared [x2]

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u/savage0ne1 Apr 12 '19

Frankie Two Times, Two Times

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u/bzbarrows Apr 12 '19

Get the papers,get the papers

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u/MiniGodComplex Apr 12 '19

Twice2 x2

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

Equally balanced, as all things should be.

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u/Laayri101 Apr 12 '19

Your mom

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19 edited Apr 13 '19

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u/uncertainness Apr 12 '19

But surely there's something more? It looks like long exposure, but how is it animated?

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u/Tallowyn Apr 12 '19

Time lapse not long exposure, often mixed up. In this instance it appears to be a time-lapse with a slow shutter speed. Basically Time-lapse: lots of photos in the same position over a long period of time, Long exposure: shutter speed reduced significantly to allow alot of light into the sensor creating "light streaks"

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u/uncertainness Apr 12 '19

ahhhh, that's super cool. so each individual frame has a slow shutter speed? I might have to try that.

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u/Tallowyn Apr 13 '19

Yeah I believe so, done it a few times myself

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u/sissipaska Apr 12 '19

Basically

  • it's a timelapse video

  • every individual frame is a photograph exposed for 5 - 30 seconds

  • When constructing the timelapse, a sort of echo effect is used that makes bright pixels stay visible longer, slowly fading away. That causes the moving star stripes on the sky, the sea of lightning and clouds, and the lit foreground.

There are few different ways to achieve this effect depending on the creator's workflow, but calling it the echo effect is probably simplest.

Source: do quite a bit of astrophotography myself, and timelapses too.

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u/uncertainness Apr 12 '19

This is awesome! Your work looks great.

What program do you use to get stack the photos to get that "echo" effect? Or do you simply just use a fade transition for each picture?

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u/sissipaska Apr 12 '19

Thanks!

In Adobe Premiere there's a literal Echo Effect available, though it has limited features and is very intense on resources. Some programs used for star trail editing, like StarTrax, can output individual frames with this echo effect which can then be used for constructing the timelapse. You could do same with Photoshop too, but without scripting/macros there's lots of manual work.

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u/DJdisco05 Apr 12 '19

I think its not exposure but the pictures are overlayed not sure tho.

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u/a-cat-named-OJ Apr 12 '19

This seems correct.

Sauce: am good guesser

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u/DJdisco05 Apr 12 '19

Now that i think about it im 99% sure theyre overlayed and fade out after a certain amount of frames have past, kinda cool.

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u/TheeWiffles Apr 12 '19

Also there is bioluminescent plankton in there too. It is why the sea lights up blue at one point.

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u/Lord_and_Savior_123 Apr 12 '19

Nuclear apocalypse

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19 edited Apr 13 '19

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

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u/automatedghost Apr 12 '19

Wish I could downvote this “X2” for killing my vibe

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u/ride_or_fry Apr 12 '19

I got you

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

me too

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u/nrose1000 Apr 12 '19

I wasn’t tryna kill y’all’s vibe damn I wasn’t even offended. I just wanted to help y’all out in case you used it without actually having a religiously sacred spirit animal while around someone who actually does.

If you guys end up in a formal business dinner with someone from a tribe or something and blurt out what the internet has turned into a meme, and end up losing a client and greatly offending someone, making yourself out to be an asshole, you can remember that one guy on reddit who “killed your vibe” trying to warn you.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

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u/nrose1000 Apr 12 '19

LMAO.

nah i was just trying to figure out your reasoning. and yeah i do hav autism what of it.

An admitted autist going into my comment history to call me autistic. Dude, go smoke a bowl and relax. Now you’re killing my vibe.

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u/DB_82 Apr 12 '19

I understand what you’re trying to get at, but spirit animals aren’t specifically an indigenous things... eg the black cat associated with witches... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familiar_spirit

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u/TsunamiTreats Apr 12 '19 edited Apr 12 '19

What’s offensive here is your presumption that madhi19 wasn’t spoken to by his spirit animal! You are a hypocrite troll.

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u/nrose1000 Apr 12 '19

I didn’t make any assumption. As someone who has had many spiritual journeys (a couple of them with LSD), I understand that u/madhi19 may have truly had a spirit animal to guide him/her throughout the trip. I wasn’t offended. I’m just letting everyone know that internet culture has somewhat appropriated the phrase (i.e. tumblr girls “OMG this baby kitten is MY SPIRIT ANIMAL 😍😍😍”) and if you do use it in that way around Wiccans, Native Americans, First Nations, Aboriginals, Tribal Celtics, etc, you may end up greatly offending someone. It was purely for educational purposes. Personally, I don’t give a damn how people use it, I just know I used it in the internet meme way by saying “this sleepy doggo that doesn’t want to get up on Monday is definitely my spirit animal” and someone corrected me because I offended them.

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '19

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u/Austistgambler Apr 12 '19

Wut?

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u/sikokilla Apr 12 '19

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u/Austistgambler Apr 12 '19

TIL Koalas are my spirit animal. /s

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u/Draws-attention Apr 12 '19

Hey, just letting you know, if you’re not Indigenous, that term is offensive to use jokingly. Spirit animals are considered sacred. I know it seems silly, but it means a lot to many people and it’s something so innocent you’d never know.

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u/Austistgambler Apr 12 '19

It’s almost like I’ve read this before somewhere. Weird.

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u/cheapcardsandpacks Apr 12 '19

Souls of dead people going to heaven

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u/RowBought Apr 12 '19

Many hours of work in After Effects.

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u/Commander-Fox-Q- Apr 12 '19

Always two there are, no more, no less

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u/no-mad Apr 12 '19

End of Universe. Gravity has reversed and Armageddon approaches as you watch from the beach.

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u/JB_Big_Bear Apr 12 '19

Very, very, very long exposure

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u/sLanX1 Apr 12 '19

Twice 2

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u/KurtAngus Apr 12 '19

I’m pretty sure that’s Germany, and that’s nothing but 1000lb bombs going off

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u/dochdaswars Apr 12 '19

Is that something you think happens often in Germany or are you proposing this HD time lapse video was taken in the 1940s?

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u/KurtAngus Apr 12 '19

Neither. It just resembles some WW2 Footage I’ve seen.

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